well, seems to have worked so far
I tell him, "ok, good night..." and walk away after a few minutes. He starts fussing after 30 seconds or so but gives up and falls asleep a minute or two later. So, hey.
― frogbs, Monday, 20 March 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
Awesome, man.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
just putting this story here for the parents, just wondering if you have opinions. i have some.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/news/a43466/mom-kids-followed-in-ikea/
― nomar, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
sounds ridiculous to me
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Her story reads like the biggest bunch of bullshit. For one thing, these guys were not sex traffickers. They were almost certainly serial killers.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
they were clearly radical Islamic terrorists
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
Come on guys. They were ghosts and you know it.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/gta/2015/01/20/darwin-the-ikea-monkeys-former-owner-reportedly-living-with-two-new-monkeys/darwin-ikea.jpg.size.custom.crop.1086x678.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
Ghosts of her kids from the future, come back in time to warn them about their impending abduction by a sex trafficking ring.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
what a coincidence that she was alarmed by reading an account of sex-trafficker stalking and then was sex traffikicker stalked herself
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
This harrowing dance apparently continued for the better part of an hour, so eventually, Toyos's mother made a bold move. "She made eye contact, very clearly letting them know that we saw them," Toyos wrote.
― nomar, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
TAKEAN
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
"good luck" finding those guys in Ikea tbh
― nomar, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
My mom and I decided to sit down and wait for them to move on. We had a gut feeling something was going on, but we hoped we were wrong and they would move on. So we sat in one of the little display rooms. For close to 30 minutes. And they sat too. They sat down on one of the couches on the display floor that faced us. That was when we knew our gut feeling was right and something was off. They sat the whole time we sat, and stood up right as we got up.
sorry but these are the WORST human traffickers
― nomar, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
^^next Rob Schneider movie
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
"I always think, 'That could never happen to me,'" Toyos wrote, as a reminder. "But you guys, it did."
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
and here's why
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
SHOCKING: Two women and three children sit on an Ikea couch for thirty minutes near two men.
― nomar, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
who looked at them, don't forget the looking at them part.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/izWTd6G.jpg
helloborn may 21, a son
― dylannn, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
woohoo congratulations!!!
― marcos, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
congrats! did u end up stayin in Japan or moving back to Canada?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
also had did baby time travel back to our time from the future or what
Congratulations!!
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
thanks. and, march! it was march. still in tokyo, seemingly the most expensive city on the planet to give birth to and raise a child.
― dylannn, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
Congrats Dylannn!
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 March 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Awwww. <3
― DJI, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
can't bring myself to say "just pee in the frog's mouth!" to my son
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YXFI0FK/ref=sxr_pa_click_within_right_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=2957865802&pf_rd_r=XCJPYMZ763SXP8Q6FZW6&pd_rd_wg=SjAUG&pf_rd_s=desktop-rhs-carousels&pf_rd_t=301&pd_rd_w=VqC2o&pf_rd_i=potty%2Bseat%2Bbjorn&pd_rd_r=12K0AEYJ668ZT6MBA980&th=1
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
'yeah! make that uvula spin!'
― It's always (sunny successor), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Yesterday my 13-year-old kid fell off of his bike and fractured one of his vertebra. He's going to be ok. He's in a lot of pain, but mostly mobile. He needs to avoid strenuous activity for a month, which is going to be the worst part of it for him because he's very active.
He somehow managed to not hit his head when he landed, but if he had, he hadn't been wearing a helmet. The doctor warned us that with the force he hit the ground, a head injury would have been much more severe. We used to make him wear a helmet, but gave in because none of the other kids in the neighborhood wore one. I was excited that he was getting into bmx. I used to freestyle when I was younger and never wore helmets and managed to escape injury. So while we knew it was utterly fucking stupid to let him ride helmetless, we just got swept along.
So even though his back injury would not have been prevented by a helmet, it's been a hell of a wake-up call for me and my wife. Just wanted to put that out there for everybody.
― how's life, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
fuck that's scary. so glad to hear he's basically ok.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
yikes that is scary - glad he's (mostly, sort of) ok
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Helmets are so neccesary! Hope yr boy recovers ok. A cuz of mine is only alive today cos he had a helmet on when he came off his bike head first into the road.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
Best wishes, hows life, that sounds terrifying
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 May 2017 08:01 (seven years ago) link
Thanks guys.
Yeah, it was totally terrifying. He had miraculously been able to ride his bike home, thinking he just got the wind knocked out of him and some bad road rash. When he went to take his shirt off to go shower I guess it dislodged the bone fragment and he just melted down in tears - something I haven't seen him do from an injury since he was 6. So I threw him in the car and rushed him to the urgent care clinic and he's just screaming the whole time. I had to be calm and reassure him but the whole time I didn't know what was wrong - was there organ damage? Internal bleeding?
Crazy thing is, he swears he wasn't even doing some rad trick. I've watched him with his friends recently and I know the kind of stuff he tries, so I believe him. He says he just pulled up on the handlebars while going over a bump, overcompensated, and the bike went out from under him. Sometimes it's the simplest things that can lead to a bad accident.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:47 (seven years ago) link
That's horrifying and I'm glad he's okay or at least mendable. My most prominent scar is 30+ years old, from slipping and hitting my lip on my 70's hi-rise bike handlebars when I was just riding slowly and not doing any stunts.
We've been pretty strict about helmet use on his strider bike, to the point that sometimes he asks to wear it around the house for no reason. This one's easy to model because my wife and I always, always wear bike helmets based on a friend slowly losing her brother to a BMX head injury.
But then I think about skateboarding, which I loved and would have no problem with him getting into, where nobody wears a helmet except on vert ramps. I hit my head at least a couple of times falling off benches and jump ramps and it's just sheer luck that I didn't seriously injure myself, but I still would never think of wearing one while street skating.
― joygoat, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's the crazy thing. No one wears them around here except little kids. I definitely made him when he was younger and I make my daughter wear one, but when he got old enough to ride around the neighborhood by himself, I'd often see him come back home with the helmet dangling off his handlebars until eventually he stopped taking it out altogether. There's even a law in our state, but cops don't even bother to enforce it.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Guys, guys, I have discovered the most amazing restaurant in the world -- Benihana! You get to sit for an hour plus meal, during much of which your children are distracted by a juggling clown chef making your food! And the food itself isn't completely terrible!
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Sunday, 21 May 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link
sounds like they should franchise
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 22 May 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Yesterday my 13-year-old kid fell off of his bike and fractured one of his vertebra. He's going to be ok. He's in a lot of pain, but mostly mobile. He needs to avoid strenuous activity for a month, which is going to be the worst part of it for him because he's very active.He somehow managed to not hit his head when he landed, but if he had, he hadn't been wearing a helmet. The doctor warned us that with the force he hit the ground, a head injury would have been much more severe. We used to make him wear a helmet, but gave in because none of the other kids in the neighborhood wore one. I was excited that he was getting into bmx. I used to freestyle when I was younger and never wore helmets and managed to escape injury. So while we knew it was utterly fucking stupid to let him ride helmetless, we just got swept along.So even though his back injury would not have been prevented by a helmet, it's been a hell of a wake-up call for me and my wife. Just wanted to put that out there for everybody.― how's life, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:07 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:07 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He recovered from this after about two weeks, by the way, and we've let him go back out on the bike as long as he wears a helmet. Of course twice since then he's come home crying about being the only kid to wear a helmet and how none of his 13-year-old friends had ever heard of anybody dying from not wearing a helmet. "You're taking away my freedom!" It's been fun, let me tell you. But at least his strife tells me he's wearing it.
― how's life, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
Glad to hear hes recovered!
The arc-up reminds me of yesterday tho: bf had bouht a brand new big-boy bed for the youngest. All in flat pack parts of course so when they got home, he tells both boys they are going to help him put it together (I wasnt in a state to help much, my back's effed).
Older (12yo) kid threw an absolute shitfit, because he was being made to help his father and brother instead of spending time on the internet talking to his friends (which he'd been doing for HOURS at that point as it happens). FINE I WILL JUST HAVE TO GO WITHOUT SPEAKING TO MY BEST FRIEND IN ENGLAND WHO I NEVER GET TO TALK TO THEN he wailed dramatically (*this is complete bollocks he talks to this kid almost every effing day ad had been talking to him for hours just prior!).
Apparently having it pointed out to him that he should give helping his own family priority was "a fucking guilt trip" . I forsee the start of self-absorbed, selfish Teen Angst hoveing over the horizon and I am NOT looking forward to it. Its harder when it isnt your own kid for starters - I'm less attached, so I just get Really Fucking Annoyed. I'm worried as to how i'll deal with this shit.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 5 June 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link
😡
― DJI, Monday, 5 June 2017 01:17 (seven years ago) link
...did I come across like a bit of a cow with that rant? I hope not :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 5 June 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
HELP! My 4yo has suddenly become a frequently enraged pseudo-teenager, full of bile and insult. Is this normal? Will it pass?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 5 June 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
Trayce: you come off fine.
James: I hope it will pass or that you'll be able to help her through it. There were a few times when we used to joke that my son was "seven, going on thirteen", but now that he's actually thirteen, the angsty teenager stuff truly is at a totally different level for us.
― how's life, Monday, 5 June 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
Trayce, I trick I've learned is that yelling does absolutely nothing to help the situation. Stay calm and just keep repeating 'You're going to help your father and your brother' in a calm voice even if he is yelling. If that doesn't work tell him if he doesn't help out he cant speak to his English friend for a week.
But, yeah, kids be frustrating as hell.
― It's always (sunny successor), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
Anyone have any experience with those nighttime potty training alarms with the moisture sensors?
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
that sounds horrific
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
I know. Just not sure what else to do at this point. Will talk to his doctor first.
― early rejecter, Friday, 4 August 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
diaper at night til body figures it out?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 August 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link